Barclays Middle is more likely to be disenchanted but once more.
Not relating to the house staff Liberty, who’re more likely to be at full power to kick off the second half of the season however quite that Caitlin Clark is unlikely to be on the courtroom for Tuesday’s sport.
The Fever star, who suffered a proper groin damage final week throughout a sport towards the Solar, will endure further testing this week and sure can be sidelined for a second consecutive regular-season sport, per ESPN.
After that, the staff is hoping to have “more of a clear line of what [the path forward] looks like,” Fever coach Stephanie White instructed reporters on Sunday.
“I think she’s progressing,” White added. “I think that we’re continuing to address everything that needs to be addressed … I don’t expect her to be available on Tuesday, so we’re just going to continue to take it one day at a time and let her get her evaluations early this week.”
After the current damage, Clark missed the Fever’s loss to the Liberty after which sat out for the whole lot of the All-Star weekend festivities set at her house area in Indianapolis, the place she was set to compete in her first skilled 3-point contest and captain her staff on the courtroom after receiving a record-setting 1,293,536 fan votes — probably the most earned by a participant in WNBA historical past.
The 2-time All-Star stated it was “certainly unfortunate” to look at the All-Star competitions from the sideline inside Gainbridge Fieldhouse, the place the staff she captained was blown out by Napheesa Collier’s squad 151-131.
It’s Clark’s third damage stint of the season after she missed 5 video games between Could and June as a consequence of a left quad and went on to overlook 4 video games with an preliminary left groin damage.
Following restoration from the latter, Clark returned for lower than every week earlier than injuring her proper groin.
She has missed 10 regular-season video games this season — 11 when counting the Commissioner’s Cup remaining that noticed the Fever beat the No. 1 Lynx 74-59.
On high of Clark’s standing having grown unpredictable this season, the Fever parted methods with DeWanna Bonner, who’s now with the Mercury, in a midseason departure.
The Fever have been confronted with lots of roster inconsistency, which is mirrored of their 12-11 report that places them at No. 6 within the league standings.
Indiana is just one.5 sport away from falling out of the eight-team playoff discipline.
“For us, it’s probably something we’re going to continue to deal with. These soft tissue injuries sometimes nag until you can actually have time to really allow them to heal in the offseason,” White stated. “So, we’ll just take it one day at a time and as they come, and this group will continue to progress together.”
